If you’re paying high state taxes your beef is with your state legislature. The fed government doesn’t owe you a deduction for it.
Bingo!
The hell the feds don’t owe me a deduction! They steal my money every 2 weeks! The state in which I live should always get more and have first cut but because we still have folks that firmly believe power should reside at the fed level and less with the states, well we are left with the John Adams ilk vs. Jefferson.
Why should the states which should have the power of taxation have to lower their taxes because an out of control federal government can’t control their spending?